Dion Fortune Books In Order

The Winged Bull

The Winged Bull is a tale of magic and sexuality. Down on his luck, Ted Murchison invokes The Winged Bull, a god of ancient Babylon, to come to his aid. Immediately, he is drawn into a vortex of weird events in which he is asked to rescue the daughter of an old friend from the clutches of a black magician.

The Goat-Foot God

The mediaeval mind of the man returned from the dead knew no half lights or compromise in the doctrines of sin and hell. According to all the standards ofhis world, he had sold his soul to the Devil and an eternity of hell fire awaited him. ‘She gazed back at him. The minutes were slipping away one after the other. A town clock chimed the hour. How much longer were they going to stay like this? She dared not move lest God knew what should be let loose upon her. She could conceive of Hugh Paston falling dead in the occupant of his body withdrew suddenly. Come what might, the first move must not come from here. ‘Then the man, without taking his eyes off hers, slowly stretched out his hand and touched the back of hers with th etips of her fingers, as if feeling her pulse. The finger tips were icy cold. It was indeed like the touch of the hand of the dead’

The Sea Priestess

The Sea Priestess is the highly acclaimed novel in which Dion Fortune introduces her most powerful fictional character, Vivien Le Fay Morgan a practicing initiate of the Hermetic Path. Vivien has the ability to transform herself into magical images, and here she becomes Morgan Le Fay, sea priestess of Atlantis and foster daughter to Merlin! Desperately in love with Vivien, Wilfred Maxwell works by her side at an isolated seaside retreat, investigating these occult mysteries. They soon find themselves inextricably drawn to an ancient cult through which they learn the esoteric significance of the magnetic ebb and flow of the moontides.

Moon Magic

Almost 15 years after she first appeared in Sea Priestess, Dion Fortune wrote about her hero*ine Vivien Le Fay again. In Moon Magic Vivien appears as Lilith Le Fay, and uses her knowledge of moontides to construct an astral temple of Hermetic magic. The viewpoint of Lilith Le Fay is purely pagan, and she is a rebel against society, bent upon its alteration. She may, of course, represent my Freudian subconscious…
‘from the Introduction ‘Dion Fortune’s books sell! Sea Priestess has sold 32,000 copies and Moon Magic has 25,000 copies in print. ‘First published in 1938 and 1956, neither Sea Priestess nor Moon Magic have been out of print and are enduring favorites among readers of esoteric fiction. ‘New packages will update these classic novels and introduce them to a new generation of readers.

The Secrets of Dr Taverner

Of the many authors who have turned their hands to the creation of ‘supernatural sleuths’, few have been so colourful, and as contradictory, as Dion Fortune. She was, in her time, a highly significant and influential figure within spiritualistic circles: a one time member of the Order of the Golden Dawn, she left it to create another society, the Fraternity of the Inner Light, which under another name still exists today; and which refuses to discuss her. During the 1920s and 1930s she wrote books, pamphlets, and articles about her spiritual philosophies and various sociological and sexual issues, including vegetarianism, the servant problem, and contraception.

She also turned her hand to fiction, writing novels which contained such elements as black and white magic, the great god Pan, astral bodies, reincarnation, and the lost city of Atlantis. When she died in 1946, Fortune left her final novel, MOON MAGIC, uncompleted; the last two chapters are said to have been dictated by her from beyond to one of the Inner Light mediums.

Her first work of fiction, however, was The Secrets of Dr Taverner, first published in 1926. The stories concern some of the psychic adventures of the Holmes like Taverner, as narrated by his assistant, Dr Rhodes. In addition to containing the eleven stories from the first edition, this volume also includes a twelfth Dr Taverner tale, ‘A Son of the Night’, which was not published until some years after Fortune’s death, and which has been the cause of some speculation regarding its authorship. In his lengthy introduction, Jack Adrian examines the enigma who was Dion Fortune, and provides a possible solution to the question of which real person served as the basis for Dr Taverner.